Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Congressman Lane was preparing for a fight in the House Ways and Means Committee against the Organization for Trade Cooperation (he believed OTC would reduce tariffs, hurt his textile worker constituents) when he got some bad news. In Boston a federal grand jury indicted him on three counts of evading $38,542 in income taxes. In 1949, according to the indictment, Congressman Lane declared, on a joint return with his wife, an income of $14,311 when his actual income was $57,497; in 1950 he declared $20,991 when his actual income...
...December, 1923. Senator Albert B. Cummins had been the chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce since 1919. When, in 1923, his name again appeared on the list of proposed chairmen, Democrats and Progressives in the Senate roared that Cummins was the enemy of the farmer and the worker. He had sponsored the controversial Esch-Cummins law which provided for high railroad freight rates, a law that was oppressive to the small shipper. His opponents charged that Cummins was the ally of the gilded railroaders, and the farmer's foe. They maintained that Cummins' reappointment to the chair...
...groups. As an extra tribute to the Pope, who has done so much to bring his church to the workingman, the cornerstone will be laid for a new church in Rome, dedicated to honor Pius' 80th birthday. The name Pius chose for the church: Gesu Lavoratore (Jesus the Worker...
...know how we get along," Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker confessed to its few readers in 1934. "We keep simple books . . . We only know that the printing bill is getting paid . . . and so, too, the expenses of feeding our friends...
...judge, learning belatedly that the House of Hospitality was a charitable enterprise (an outgrowth of Convert Day's pacifist-inclined and anti-industrial Catholic Worker movement), cooperated by setting aside the fine...